The laborers of the Lord

The time approaches in which the things announced for the transformation of Humanity will be fulfilled. Happy will be those who shall have worked in the field of the Lord, with disinterest and with no other motive than charity! Their days of labor will be paid a hundredfold of what they shall have expected. Happy those who shall have said to their brothers: “Let us work together and unite our efforts, so that the Lord, on arriving, may find the work finished,” for the Lord will say to them: “Come to me, you who are good servants, you who knew how to impose silence on your jealousies and your discords, so that no harm came to the work from them!” But, woe to those who, by the effect of their dissensions, shall have delayed the hour of the harvest, for the tempest will come and they will be carried off in the whirlwind! They will cry out: “Mercy! mercy!” But the Lord will say to them: “How do you implore mercy, you who had no pity for your brothers and who refused to extend your hands to them, who crushed the weak, instead of supporting them? How do you beg for mercy, you who sought your reward in the enjoyments of Earth and in the satisfaction of your pride? You have already received your reward, just as you wished it. Nothing more remains for you to ask; the celestial rewards are for those who have not sought the rewards of Earth.” God proceeds, at this moment, to the census of his faithful servants and has already marked with his finger those whose devotion is merely apparent, so that they may not usurp the wages of the spirited servants, for it is to those who do not recoil before their tasks that he is going to entrust the most difficult posts in the great work of regeneration through Spiritism. These words will be fulfilled: “The first will be the last and the last will be the first in the kingdom of heaven.”

The Spirit of Truth.

[1] Translator's note: See The Gospel According to Spiritism, chapter XX, item 5.

[2] [see Spirit of Truth.]